Hush descends as impossible dream dies

SHORTLY after Roy Keane took over as manager of Ipswich Town, he did a press conference in Dublin at which I asked him a question about the stunning example set by his old Nottingham Forest mentor Brian Clough.
Hush descends as impossible dream dies

Famously, Clough had taken a comparatively small, backwater club to the summits of both English and European football — but would Keane not concede that a similar feat was simply impossible in the modern age?

“Impossible? I wouldn’t like to use that word,” he replied.

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